The Society of Printers
April 10 — the 45rd annual Dwiggins Lecture – Rick Poynor: David King
David King was a british designer, graphic activist, visual historian. The very model of an engaged, politicised, protean, intellectually ambitious, visually inventive designer, an exceptional and exceptionally inspiring figure, whose work remains timely. His book The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia which has particular resonance today as technology continues to make “alternative” visual facts which distort historical record more difficult to parse and debunk.
Rick Poynor is an author, critic, lecturer and curator, specialising in design, photography and visual culture. He is Professor of Design and Visual Culture at the University of Reading in the UK. Rick will present at the Boston Public Library.
The event begins at 6pm, is free and open to the public, and is held at the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02116 - Tel: 617-536-5400.
LOCATION:Boston Public Library's Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston, MA STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20190410T220000Z DTEND:20190410T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR